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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 85

Small Grazing-runs, Otago, open for Lease.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 19th November, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application on and after Wednesday, the 23rd January, 1895, at the half-yearly rentals noted below. In case of more than one application for the same run on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

FIRST-CLASS PASTORAL COUNTRY.

Subdivisions of Pastoral Run 206F, Taieri Lake Station, containing open pastoral land of fair quality; situated about eleven miles from Naseby, two miles from the proposed railway-station at Ryan's Crossing, and eighteen miles from Hyde; altitude, from 1,300ft. to 1,500ft.

WAITAKI COUNTY.

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Open, broken, mixed agricultural and pastoral country, good black soil, well watered; situated close to Livingstone Township. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £192 7s. This run was lately surrendered by John Sutherland.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of lease is twenty-one years, with the option of renewal for a further period of twenty-one years, at a rent to be fixed by valuation, and improvements being secured to lessee as provided by "The Land Act, 1892," section 182. Each lessee is required to make the declaration as per form printed below.

2. No person can lease more than one run.

3. Residence on the run is compulsory, and commences within three years in bush or swamp land, and within one year in open or partly open land, unless the lessee obtain the consent of the Land Board to reside on other land in his occupation.

4. Permanent improvements must be effected equal to one year's rental by the end of the first year, two years' rental by the end of the second year, and four years' rental at the end of the sixth year; and on bush land, in addition thereto, improvements must be made to the value of 10s. an acre if first-class land, or of 5s. an acre if second-class land.

5. One half-year's rent and £1 1s. for the lease must be paid immediately the application is declared successful; the rent to be paid half-yearly in advance during the term of the lease. The next payment of rent will become due on the 1st September, 1895.

6. The lessee has no right to purchase any part of the land; but he can select 150 acres around the homestead through which no road can be taken or other public privilege exercised without compensation.

NOTE.—One-fourth of the rent paid during the first fifteen years is returned to the local body, to be spent in improving the access to the land.

Native Land Court Notices.

"The Native Land Court Act, 1894."

NOTICE is hereby given that the several matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Greytown North on the 12th day of December, 1894, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

SCHEDULE.

PARTITION.

DECLARATION.

I, , of* , do solemnly and sincerely declare—

1. That I am of the age of seventeen years and upwards.

2. That I am the person who, subject to the provisions of "The Land Act, 1892," am desirous of becoming the purchaser of a lease of Run No.†

3. That I am purchasing such lease solely for my own use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use of any other person or persons whatever.

4. That I am not already the holder of any such lease in any part of the colony, nor have I any interest in any such lease.

5. That I am not the holder of any run under Part VI. of the aforesaid Act, nor have I any interest in any such run.

6. That I do not own any freehold land or land held by lease or license of any kind whatever anywhere in the colony, either by myself or jointly with any other person, which, exclusive of the land I am now purchasing the lease of, will exceed in area 1,000 acres.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882."

(Signature.)

Declared at , this day of , 18 , before me— , a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Lands, Westland, open for Lease on Application.

Lands and Survey Office,
Hokitika, 2nd November, 1894.

IN accordance with section 197 of "The Land Act, 1892," I hereby give notice that the under-mentioned pastoral runs, having been submitted to public auction and not sold, will be open for application, at the upset rental, on and after the 18th day of December, 1894:—

Run No. 57, Mariner's Peak, 7,500 acres.
Run No. 70, Haast and Waita Rivers, 12,500 acres.
Run No. 80, Mount Argentine, 6,000 acres.
Run No. 90, Bald Hill Range, 5,500 acres.

Subject to the provisions of "The Land Act, 1892," Part VI. All for the term of ten years each, and at the annual rental of £1 per 1,000 acres. Possession to be given on the date of granting of application.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Grazing-lease of Forest Reserve, Wellington, for Sale by Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned land, being a forest reserve, will be offered for lease for grazing purposes, in terms of section 232 of "The Land Act, 1892," for the term of fourteen years, by public auction, at Pahiatua, on Wednesday, the 5th December, at 11 a.m.:—

MANGAHAO SURVEY DISTRICT.

Section 133, Block III., 72 acres 2 roods 16 perches; upset annual rental, £16 6s. 8d. Weighted with the sum of £65 as valuation for improvements.

This section lies to the east of Ballance, on the banks of the Mangahao River, with rich alluvial soil; all level. A saw-mill has been formerly at work, and the totara timber has been cut out.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.